Tennessee · Nonprofit
Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council
Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,911 to it, the largest being BEREA COLLEGE ($208,519). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $343k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council does
Mission
The conserving of natural resources and improving rural economies through leadership and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Federal, State, and Private Grants resources used to fulfill the mission of conserving natural resources adn improving rural economies through leadership and education
$1,913,500 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,913,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $689k to $1.5M (+123%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 73% · 2018 79% · 2019 84% · 2020 77% · 2021 65% · 2022 74% · 2023 20% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Allyson Wilkinson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $33k → $30k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $127k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest East Tennessee Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council raised.
From the IRS filings of Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 58% · 2020 63% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.5M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council?
- Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,911 to it, the largest being BEREA COLLEGE ($208,519). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $342,911 in grants to Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council?
- BEREA COLLEGE is the largest funder on record, with $208,519 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing